Head to head : 114th India v Sri Lanka ODIs it was. India now have won 61, Sri Lanka 43 with no tied and 10 no results.

India Innings : started slowly with Sachin and Sehwag taking their time as it was a day game and early morning start had little bit for new ball bowlers. But as soon as moisture vaporised, balls started flying out of ground consistently. Virendra Sehwag looked good for first ODI double century but he failed. India suffered a middle order collapse after MS Dhoni's half century but little cameros from Virat Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja took India past 400 run mark, the 5th highest ODI score by any team.

Sri Lanka innings : matched stroke per stroke to India, and even exceeded it at times. Tillakaratane Dilshan's 26th highest score by a batsman and Kumar Sangakkara's near fastest century by a Sri Lankan batsman won visitors a miracle but it wasn't to be as Zaheer Khan and Ashish Nehra held their nerve in last overs.

India Innings (inserted in to bat first)

R

B

4s

6s

Virendra Sehwag

c Dilshan b Welegedara

146

102

17

6

Sachin Tendulkar

b Dilhara Fernando

69

63

10

1

MS Dhoni

c Mathews b Fernando

72

53

7

3

Suresh Raina

c Jayasuriya b Kulasekara

16

20

2

0

Gautam Gambhir

c Sangakkara b Kulasekara

11

8

1

0

Harbhajan Singh

c Kulasekara b Mathews

11

13

1

0

Virat Kohli

b Chanaka Welegedara

27

19

4

0

Ravindra Jadeja

not out

30

17

1

2

Praveen Kumar

not out

5

7

0

0

Zaheer Khan

Ashish Nehra

Extras

(b=5, lb=4, wd=12, nb=6)

27

Total

(50 overs)

414 for 7 wkts

Bowling

O

M

R

W

Nuwan Kulasekara

(2 wides)

10

0

65

2

Chanaka Welegedara

(1 wide)

10

0

63

2

Dilhara Fernando

(2 wides)

9

0

66

2

Angelo Mathews

7

0

60

1

Sanath Jayasuriya

7

0

76

0

Thilan Kandambi

5

0

49

0

Tillakaratane Dilshan

2

0

26

0

Sri Lanka innings (elected to bat)

R

B

4s

6s

Upul Tharanga

st Dhoni b Suresh Raina

67

60

3

4

Tillakaratane Dilshan

b Harbhajan Singh

160

124

20

3

Kumar Sangakkara

c Jadeja b Praveen Kumar

90

43

10

5

Sanath Jayasuriya

st Dhoni b Harbhajan Singh

5

4

0

0

Mahela Jayawardene

run out (Kohli/Dhoni)

3

8

0

0

Thilan Kandambi

run out (Tendulkar/Khan)

24

25

2

0

Angelo Mathews

c Tendulkar b Nehra

38

33

2

0

Thilan Samarweera

run out (Raina/Kumar)

0

1

0

0

Nuwan Kulasekara

not out

2

2

0

0

Chanaka Welegedara

not out

1

1

0

0

Dilhara Fernando

Extras

(lb=7, wd=13, nb=1)

21

Total

(50 overs)

411 for 8 wkts

Bowling

O

M

R

W

Praveen Kumar

(1 wide)

9

0

67

1

Ashish Nehra

(1 nb, wd)

10

0

81

1

Zaheer Khan

(2 wides)

10

0

88

0

Ravindra Jadeja

(6 wides)

8

0

73

0

Harbhajan Singh

10

0

58

2

Suresh Raina

(1 wide)

3

0

37

1

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